Although Sassoon's poem, The Dug Out is justly famous, this poem about my grandfather's own experience, My Dug-Out, also paints a vivid picture of the misery of life in the trenches. In his war ...

The poem was published in his collection called The Five Nations. The lines are meant to be repetitive thoughts of soldiers belonging to the British Army, generally used to train the trainees to ...

Then, and only then, did I come close. SIMON:This poem is written through the experiences of a soldier called Eddie. A bullet had entered the side of his face. The bullet had ricocheted around ...